CLCV 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, Urban Revolution, Economic Surplus

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Classical Civilization
• Course: CLCV 231
• Professor: K Kreindler

Document Summary

With transition from hunter-gather societies to farming, people had to settle down cities. Concentration of large population in a restricted area. Economic surplus and its appropriation by a central authority. The neolithic revolution (8,500 bce - 3,000 bce) Childe believes urban revolution = final neolithic revolution. Agriculture: includes cultivation and animal domestication and husbandry. Access to fresh water (important for survival and agriculture) Had to be brought in from eastern modern-day turkey evidence of long-distance trade. Protection against invasion evidence of other cities/settlements & implies central authority. Living in rectangular houses arranged around central courtyard. Possibly important ancestors of community social stratification. Fill in grill plan and make drainage areas. Cobble floor of houses instead of dirt floor. Multi-room houses (mostly storage spaces implies surplus) Some houses are much larger than others evidence of emerging social stratification. World"s first metal tools made out of copper and metalite (locally source)